skeptical - Story 133100 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"You know, you can use the guest bathroom now," his father said, gesturing towards the hallway. It was meant to be a gesture of generosity, but it came out as an instruction. Ethan’s shoulders tensed.

He was grateful, of course. But the house felt like a museum, a place where everything was carefully preserved and labeled. The same pictures on the walls, the same routines, the same conversations.

He forced a smile. "Thanks, Dad." He really was trying to make the best of it. But the lump in his throat threatened to choke him.

Emotion: skeptical

Cluster: Suspicion / Vigilance

PC1 (Valence): -0.02 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): 1.45

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion skeptical. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 skeptical stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the skeptical emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the skeptical vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`de`	0.468
`que`	0.396
`la`	0.346
`a`	0.333
`🧐`	0.327

Suppressed:

`再び`	-0.304
`终于`	-0.299
`再次`	-0.270
`終於`	-0.263
`momentarily`	-0.255